10 April 1583 A.D. Birth: Hugo Grotius, Dutch Statesman, Lawyer, and Arminian
10 April 1583 A.D. Birth: Hugo Grotius, Dutch Statesman, Lawyer, and Arminian Onuma Yasuaki. “Hugo Grotius.” Encyclopedia Britannica. 19 Aug 2013. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/246809/Hugo-Grotius . Accessed 9 Apr 2015. Hugo Grotius, Dutch Huigh de Groot (born April 10, 1583, Delft , Netherlands —died August 28, 1645, Rostock , Mecklenburg-Schwerin ), Dutch jurist and scholar whose masterpiece De Jure Belli ac Pacis (1625; On the Law of War and Peace ) is considered one of the greatest contributions to the development of international law . Also a statesman and diplomat, Grotius has been called the “father of international law.” Early life Grotius’s father, a learned man, had been burgomaster of Delft and curator of the recently founded Leiden University (courses then would be similar to high-school classes today). An extremely gifted child, Hugo Grotius wrote Latin elegies at age 8 and became a student of the ar...